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Day of the year
August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 123 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang —are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history , during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol -led Yuan Dynasty .
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru /Master .
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle . (Traditional Japanese date : August 1 , 1590 )
1791 - The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars .
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond , Virginia
1813 - Battle of Kulm : French forces defeated by Austrian -Prussian -Russian alliance.
1813 - Creek War : Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre .
1835 - Melbourne , Australia is founded.
1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 - American Civil War : Battle of Richmond : Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright .
1862 - American Civil War : Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run .
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea .
1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar .
1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas , Rizal , Cavite , Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott .
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg .
1918 - Fanya Kaplan , an assassin , shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin . This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror .
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar , final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence ").
1941 - World War II : Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 - World War II : Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces .
1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base .
1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11 , its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court .
1974 - A Belgrade -Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 - Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi , Tokyo , Japan . 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1984 - STS-41-D : The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR .
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum .
Births
1334 - Pedro of Castile (d. 1369 )
1377 - Shah Rukh , ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447 )
1705 - David Hartley , English philosopher (d. 1757 )
1720 - Samuel Whitbread , English brewer (d. 1796 )
1748 - Jacques-Louis David , French painter (d. 1825 )
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , English writer (d. 1851 )
1808 - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892 )
1813 - Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 - Alexander H. Rice , 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895 )
1821 - Anita Garibaldi , Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters ) (d. 1849 )
1839 - Gulstan Ropert , French Catholic prelate (d. 1903 )
1842 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849 )
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk , Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905 )
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911 )
1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge , German physicist (d. 1927 )
1860 - Isaac Levitan , Russian artist (d. 1900 )
1870 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891 )
1871 - Ernest Rutherford , New Zealand -born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937 )
1884 - Theodor Svedberg , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
1893 - Huey Long , American politician (d. 1935 )
1896 - Raymond Massey , Canadian actor (d. 1983 )
1898 - Shirley Booth , American actress (d. 1992 )
1901 - Roy Wilkins , American civil rights leader (1981 )
1901 - John Gunther , American writer (d. 1970 )
1906 - Joan Blondell , American actress (d. 1979 )
1908 - Fred MacMurray , American actor (d. 1991 )
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997 )
1912 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand -born World War II secret agent
1913 - Richard Stone , Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991 )
1915 - Robert Strassburg , American composer (d. 2003 )
1918 - Ted Williams , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
1918 - Billy Johnson , American baseball player (d. 2006 )
1919 - Kitty Wells , American singer
1922 - Lionel Murphy , Australian politician (d. 1986 )
1922 - Regina Resnik , American mezzo-soprano
1923 - Barbara Mary Ansell , UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001 )
1923 - Vic Seixas , American tennis player
1924 - Geoffrey Beene , American fashion designer (d. 2004 )
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff , French writer and illustrator
1928 - Lloyd Casner , American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965 )
1930 - Warren Buffett , American entrepreneur
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian , American basketball coach
1931 - Jack Swigert , American astronaut (d. 1982 )
1933 - Don Getty , Canadian politician
1935 - John Phillips , American singer (Mamas and the Papas ) (d. 2001 )
1937 - Bruce McLaren , New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970 )
1939 - John Peel , English radio disc jockey (d. 2004 )
1939 - Elizabeth Ashley , American actress
1941 - Ben Jones , American actor and politician
1943 - Robert Crumb , American cartoonist
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy , French skier
1944 - Molly Ivins , American political humorist (d. 2007 )
1944 - Tug McGraw , American baseball player (d. 2004 )
1946 - Peggy Lipton , American actress
1946 - Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1947 - Allan Rock , Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 - Lewis Black , American comedian
1948 - Donnacha O'Dea , Irish poker player and swimmer
1949 - Peter Maffay , German musician
1949 - Ted Ammon , American financier (d. 2001 )
1949 - Christopher Collins , American actor and comedian (d. 1994 )
1949 - Don Boudria , Canadian politician
1951 - Timothy Bottoms , American actor
1951 - Dana , Irish singer and politician
1953 - Robin Harris , American comedian (d. 1990 )
1953 - Horace Panter , British musician (The Specials and General Public )
1953 - Robert Parish , American basketball player
1953 - Ron George , American politician
1954 - David Paymer , American actor
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko , President of Belarus
1958 - Martin Jackson , British drummer (Swing out Sister )
1958 - Anna Politkovskaya , Russian journalist (d. 2006 )
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson , Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 - Chalino Sanchez , Mexican musician (d. 1992 )
1960 - Hassan Nasrallah , leader of the Lebanese organisation Hizbollah
1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon , Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993 )
1960 - Guy A. Lepage , Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko , Russian KGB officer (d. 2006 )
1963 - Michael Chiklis , American actor
1963 - Paul Oakenfold , British disc jockey
1964 - Gavin Fisher , British engineer
1966 - Michael Michele , American actress
1968 - Vladimir Malakhov , Russian ice hockey player
1969 - Dimitris Sgouros , Greek pianist
1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang , Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 - Lars Frederiksen , American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs )
1972 - Cameron Diaz , American actress
1972 - Pavel Nedvěd , Czech footballer
1973 - Lisa Ling , American journalist
1974 - Javier Otxoa , Spanish cyclist
1974 - Aaron Barrett , Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1975 - Radhi Jaidi , Tunisian footballer
1976 - Mike Koplove , American baseball player
1977 - Shaun Alexander , American football player
1977 - Marlon Byrd , American baseball player
1977 - Elden Henson , American actor
1977 - Kamil Kosowski , Polish footballer
1977 - Jens Ludwig , German guitarist
1978 - Swizz Beatz , rapper/producer
1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela , Argentine tennis player
1979 - Leon Lopez , British actor
1979 - Niki Chow , Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 - Tavia Yeung , Hong Kong actress
1982 - Andy Roddick , American tennis player
1982 - Will Davison , Australian racing driver
1983 - Jun Matsumoto , Japanese singer and actor
1983 - Jonne Aaron , Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative (band)
1983 - Gustavo Eberto , Argentine footballer (d. 2007 )
1984 - Anthony Ireland , Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 - Richard Duffy , Welsh footballer
1985 - Steven Smith , Scottish footballer
1986 - Ryan Ross , American guitarist and lyricist (Panic at the Disco )
1988 - Ernests Gulbis , Latvian tennis player
1990 - Kyle Swann , American actor
Deaths
526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454 )
1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134 )
1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401 )
1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423 )
1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528 )
1617 - Rose of Lima , Peruvian saint (b. 1586 )
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro , Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535 )
1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek , Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632 )
1751 - Christopher Polhem , Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661 )
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , English writer (b. 1811 )
1879 - John Bell Hood , American Confederate general (b. 1831 )
1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , American politician (b. 1836 )
1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky , Russian statesman (b. 1824 )
1906 - Hans Auer , Swiss architect (b. 1847 )
1907 - Richard Mansfield , American actor and manager (b. 1857 )
1928 - Wilhelm Wien , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864 )
1935 - Henri Barbusse , French novelist and journalist (b. 1873 )
1938 - Max Factor , make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877 )
1940 - J.J. Thomson , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856 )
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen , Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874 )
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout , Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890 )
1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky , Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907 )
1946 - Grigory Semyonov , Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890 )
1949 - Arthur Fielder , English cricketer (b. 1877 )
1961 - Charles Coburn , American actor (b. 1877 )
1963 - Guy Burgess , English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911 )
1968 - William Talman , American actor (b. 1915 )
1970 - Del Moore , American comedian (b. 1916 )
1971 - Nathan Leopold , American murderer (b. 1904 )
1981 - Vera-Ellen , American actress (b. 1921 )
1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai , Iranian statesman (b. 1933 )
1985 - Taylor Caldwell , English-born author (b. 1900 )
1989 - Seymour Krim , American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922 )
1991 - Jean Tinguely , Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925 )
1993 - Richard Jordan , American actor, (b. 1938 )
1994 - Lindsay Anderson , English film director (b. 1923 )
1995 - Fischer Black , American economist (b. 1938 )
1995 - Sterling Morrison , American guitarist (The Velvet Underground ) (b. 1942 )
1996 - Christine Pascal , French actress and director (b. 1953 )
1999 - Raymond Poïvet , French comics artist (b. 1910 )
2001 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas , English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907 )
2002 - J. Lee Thompson , English film director (b. 1914 )
2003 - Charles Bronson , American actor (b. 1921 )
2003 - Donald Davidson , American philosopher (b. 1917 )
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple , American astronomer (b. 1906 )
2004 - Indian Larry , American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949 )
2006 - Glenn Ford , Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916 )
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
2006 - Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon , New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926 )
2007 - Michael Jackson , British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942 )
2007 - Charles Vanik , American politician (b. 1918 )
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